Improving Paddy Statistics in Indonesia: Developing Crop Cutting Survey Using Area Sampling Frame

Although the official figure of production data that was fully based on objective measurements was successfully released in 2018 for the first time, the productivity data is still obtained through a crop-cutting survey that is conducted based on a list frame (households) instead of an area frame. The use of a list frame has several limitations such as a high non-response rate that affects the accuracy of estimation. In other words, the crop-cutting survey also is going to make use of an area frame instead of a list frame. By doing so, there is no need to conduct a household listing for the sampling frame, which is time-consuming and costly. Therefore, the implementation of the crop-cutting survey will become more efficient and faster than before. The aim of this paper is to give an explanation about the technicalities that are going to be implemented regarding the integration. The defence would be focused on the methodology that is going to be applied and the business process of the data collection.